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Our Favorite Links

Here are some links we think you will find helpful (and maybe even entertaining), whether you're a newcomer or you've been with us for a while.  Please remember that these links lead to pages outside of the official web site for the Shire of Loch an Fhraoich.  We are not responsible for their content.

www.sca.org -- official web site for the Society for Creative Anachronism

www.meridies.org -- official web site for the Kingdom of Meridies

www.florilegium.org -- Stefan's Florilegium (a large collection of files covering many subjects including clothing, food, accessories, medieval life and much more - even has a newcomers section)

NEW! www.reconstructinghistory.com/index.php?c=8&w=103&r=Y -- Reconstructing History - Article Directory

NEW! www.reconstructinghistory.com/index.php?s=&c=8&d=141&e=&f=&g=&a=127&w=2 -- Reconstructing History - Your First Garb: A Beginner's Guide to Historic Clothing

www.s-gabriel.org -- excellent site for researching medieval names and arms

www.sca.org/heraldry/laurel/names.html -- name research portion of the official SCA web site

www.sca.org/heraldry/links.html -- SCA web page with links to off-site heraldry web pages

www.virtue.to/articles/in_depth_garb.html -- Introduction to Garb: A Seminar by Cynthia Virtue aka Cynthia du Pré Argent (good article on making very basic garb)

www.cs.vassar.edu/~capriest/qdirtyvk.html -- A Quick and Dirty Look at Viking Women's Garb in the Ninth and Tenth Centuries

www.cs.vassar.edu/~capriest/mensgarb.html -- An Archaeological Guide to Viking Men's Clothing

NEW! www.cs.vassar.edu/~capriest/viktunic.html -- Viking Tunic Construction

www.modaruniversity.org/chemise1.htm -- A Late 15th Century Italian Chemise Pattern - A brief how-to by Baroness Briana Etain MacKorkhill

www.moas.atlantia.sca.org/wsnlinks/index.php?action=displaycat&catid=77 -- Beads and Beadwork Links

www.members.tripod.com/~BlackTauna/byzantine.html -- Byzantine Clothing (basic patterns, information and useful links)

www.celticgarb.org/clothing/main.html -- Celtic Clothing (links and useful information about Celtic clothing)

NEW! www.elizabethancostume.net -- Mistress Drea di’Pellegrini's Elizabethan Costuming Site

NEW! www.extremecostuming.com/articles/secondhandclothes.html -- Patched, Scratched and Mis-matched:  Secondhand clothes in Elizabethan London

www.medtimes.org -- Medieval Times (online "newspaper" containing news of The Society, its Branches, and its People)

www.scatoday.net -- SCAtoday.net, Your Independent Source of News from the Current Middle Ages

www.members.tripod.com/~whitebard/garb_vio.htm -- Costume Police: Garb Violation (a humorous [or maybe not] look at what NOT to wear in the SCA - useful to newcomers, funny for those of us around long enough to remember making those mistakes)



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